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親愛的讀者：歡迎閱讀第二期的《文化衝擊！》，《文化衝擊》是由一群學生編寫有關流行文化的線上雜誌，這一期是由2002年秋季麻省理工學院21W.731「寫作與經驗」的學生所設計、製作、創作及編輯而成，其中也有南波士頓奧德賽公立中學十年級生的作品，他們與麻省理工學院寫作班的學生以電子郵件的方式討論所寫的文章，並受邀將作品刊在此雜誌上，我很榮幸能擔任這堂課的老師。第二集的《文化衝擊》是第一期的延續，第一期是由2000年秋季我第一次任教的寫作班學生出版的（可自首頁的相關檔案連結第一期），本期內容有人物典範、網路盜版、最近的股市投資熱、e世代隱私權淪喪、Rave文化，以及其它有趣的主題，這些文章企圖以批判的態度審慎觀察世上的一切事物。這堂課的目標即為，察覺到媒體、行銷、電影、音樂、風格、時尚、及流行廣告如何塑造出我們的自我意識，並感受到什麼是真實的、重要的。我們很榮幸能邀請您來閱讀這一期的線上雜誌，這些文章是我們分析21世紀初美國流行文化現象的成果，希望您喜歡我們的雜誌，如果你喜歡-就算不喜歡也好-都希望您能寫信來告訴我們。請欣賞…Rebecca Blevins Faery博士。
Dear Readers...
Welcome to the second edition of Culture Shock!, a magazine of student writing on popular culture subjects. This volume was designed, produced, written, and edited by students enrolled in a section of 21W.731, Writing and Experience, at MIT in the fall of 2002. It includes also the writing of several tenth-grade students at the Odyssey School in South Boston, a group of whom corresponded by e-mail with the MIT students in the course and who were invited to submit work for the magazine. It was my pleasure and privilege to serve as the instructor of the course.
This second volume follows the first, produced in the fall of 2000 by students in the course the first time I taught it. (You can access that first volume via the Archives link on our home page.) In this volume of the magazine, you can read about role models, internet pirating, the recent popularity of investing in the stock market, the loss of privacy in the electronic age, rave culture, and other compelling subjects in essays that take as their task the critical scrutiny of facets of the world we live in. To become more aware of the ways media, marketing, popular films and music, style and fashion, and pervasive advertising construct our sense of ourselves and of what is real, what counts, was a goal of the course. It is our pleasure now to invite you to read the writing that is the fruit of our semiotic analyses of American popular culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We hope you enjoy our magazine. If you do-or even if you don't-we hope you will write to tell us. Now read on….
Rebecca Blevins Faery, Ph.D.
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